Privacy Policy & GDPR Compliance
(GDPR is the initials of General Data Protection Regulation, and in Greek it means General Regulation for the Protection of Personal Data. GDPR is a general regulation of the European Union that has been in force since May 25, 2018 and its main purpose is transparency in the management of personal data by bloggers and internet companies. In this context, the owners of similar websites have the obligation to protect the personal data of their users, while the users themselves now have the possibility to request a copy or even their deletion. For details and explanation similar conditions read in detail below.However, if all you want is a copy or deletion of your personal data, you can request it by sending your request with the contact form.
Generally
The use of the electronic pages and services provided to the visitor/user, by the aquantum.shop website owned by "Styliani Katsogianni" hereinafter "the company", presupposes your unreserved agreement with the Privacy Policy on the Protection of Personal Data of this website. Therefore, the visitor/user must carefully read the contents of this page before using the services of our website. If you do not agree, you should leave it and NOT make any use of its services and content.
This privacy policy may change from time to time in accordance with legislation or industry developments. We will not expressly and separately notify our customers or users of our website of these changes. However, for each change we will update this page in detail and therefore we recommend that you occasionally check this page for any changes. Your continued use of the aquantum.shop website even after any changes to the Privacy Policy constitutes your unconditional acceptance of these terms.
Privacy
We collect and process your personal data only when it is absolutely necessary for the smooth operation of the page and its seamless use by you. We will never sell, rent, distribute, or otherwise make public your personal information. If you are under 16 years of age, you must have the consent of your parent or guardian before using the services of this website.
Relevant legislation
Along with our company's internal IT systems, this website has been designed to comply with the following laws/regulations regarding the protection of users' personal data:
EU Data Protection Directive 1995 (DPD)
EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2018
This website collects and uses personal information for the following reasons:
Website traffic monitoring
Like most websites, this one uses Google Analytics (GA), i.e. Google's statistics tracking service, to track user activity. We use this data to determine the number of people using our website, to better understand how they find and use our websites, and to see their journey through the website. Although GA records data such as your geographic location, device, web browser and operating system, none of this information makes you personally identifiable to us. GA also records your computer's IP address, which could be used to identify you, but Google does not give us access to this. We consider Google to be a third party data processor which is compatible with the requirements of European legislation.
Contact forms and email links
In the event that you choose to contact us using a contact form or a link in our email, none of the data you provide will be stored by this website or transferred to or processed by any third party data processor as defined below under "Our Third Party Data Processors". Instead, this data will be sent to us in an email message via SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol). Our SMTP servers are protected by TLS (sometimes known as SSL) security protocol, which means that email content is encrypted before it is sent over the internet. Email content is decrypted by our local computers and devices.
Comments
When a visitor leaves a comment on our site, we collect the information visible in the comment and additionally the visitor's IP address in order to avoid malicious comments (spam) and visits.
Checkout
During the completion of the order and for the purpose of correct dispatch and completion of the order, we retain the following information: Country, First Name, Surname, Address, City, Postal Code, Address, Email, Telephone, VAT number for issuing invoices. We keep the above for the use of tax mechanisms as well as for sending the order and will not be used for any other purpose.
What is a cookie?
The term "cookie" refers to a small data file consisting solely of a series of information in text form, which the website transfers to your web browser located on your computer's hard drive, either temporarily throughout your visit , or sometimes for longer periods, depending on the type of cookie. Cookies perform various functions (for example, distinguishing you from other visitors to the same website or remembering certain things about you, such as your preferences) and are used by most websites to improve your user experience. Improved experience in practice can mean faster navigation on our website, auto-filling of your details in contact or registration forms and in general anything that makes it easier to browse the website and communicate with its administrator.
Each cookie is unique to your browser and contains certain anonymous information. A cookie usually contains the name of the field where the cookie came from, the "lifetime" of the cookie and a value (usually in the form of a randomly generated unique number).
Types of cookies
The main types of cookies that websites may use are described below
Session cookies
These are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your device's browser only during your visit and are automatically deleted when you close the browser.
Persistent cookies
These remain in your device's browser cookie file even after the browser is closed, sometimes for a year or more (the exact length of stay depends on the lifetime of each cookie). Persistent cookies are used when the website administrator may need to know who you are for more than one visit (eg to remember your username or your website customization preferences).
First-party cookies
These are cookies that are installed on your browser and/or on your device's hard drive by the website you are visiting. This includes assigning a unique identifier to you for the purpose of tracking your browsing on the website. Website operators often use first-party cookies to manage visits and for identification purposes.
Third-party cookies
These are cookies used by third parties, such as e.g. social networks, to track your visits to the various websites on which they advertise. The website administrator has no control over these third party cookies which are obliged to comply with the General Authority for the Protection of Personal Data.
Cookies on this website and how to manage them
On this website, we use cookies to improve the experience of using the website by its visitors. The operation of the website will be significantly affected if you disable or do not accept the use of cookies.
Here is information about the third-party cookies we use on this website, including how to disable them and how disabling them affects the functionality of the website. If you would like more information on how to manage certain types of cookies, including how to control or delete them, please visit www.aboutcookies.org.
Google Analytics cookies
Google Analytics cookies are performance analysis/logging cookies that allow us to collect anonymous information about how visitors use our website. These cookies can tell us how many visitors use the site, the time and duration of access, and also provide information about how visitors navigate through the various parts of the site. This information helps us improve the way our website works. It is anonymous information and does not contain personal data.
If you disable these cookies in any way, your use of the website will not be counted, nor will it be used in the statistics we collect to improve the services we provide through the website. Website operation will not be affected.
Cookies from video service providers (Google, Vimeo, DailyMotion etc.)
These providers may place cookies on your device if you watch videos on our website that they provide to us as an external service.
If you disable these cookies, you may not be able to view embedded videos from our website.
Cookies from social networks
Third-party social networks may place cookies on your device if you choose to share material from our website with them by clicking one of the embedded share buttons.
If you disable these cookies, the "Share" function will not be available.
About this website's server
All internet traffic (file transfer) between this website and your browser is encrypted and transferred via the HTTPS protocol using SSL (Secure Sockets Layer). The use of the https protocol can also be confirmed visually in the search bar of the browser you are using.
Our third party data processors
We use a number of third parties to process personal data for us. These agencies have been carefully selected to comply with the legislation mentioned herein.
Data breaches
For all your personal information stored in our database, all necessary measures will be taken to secure it.
We will report any unlawful breach of the database of this website or the database of any third party data processor to any and all directly concerned, as well as to the authorities within 72 hours of the breach, as long as it is apparent that the personal data that are stored in a recognizable format, they have been stolen.
Data controller
The controller of this website is: "Styliani Katsogianni".